PlayaHata
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I saw this on Digg and found a number of interesting movies to add to my list of movies to watch.
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El Floppo
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gave it a quick glance and a lot of good stuff in there.
that it starts with Baron Munchausen is a good sign (I've been wanting to watch it with my kids- but don't want to pony any money for it in case- and they likely will, little ingrates- they get "bored" and bug out)
eta: and I saw "Dig" and thought you were talking about the Brian Jonestown music doc, which I love.
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Ilov80s
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I finally saw what many consider the worst Best Picture winner of all time: The Greatest Show on Earth. I don't know if it's the worst winner I have seen but it is definitely the most perplexing. It's more entertaining than some of the other winners I have seen. Just being big and bright technicolor with Gloria Grahame in so many skimpy outfits is enough to top some of the most boring award winners. It's really 3 movies edited together into a 2.5 hour long love letter to the circus. It's 1 part narrated documentary about the behind the scenes of the circus (set-up, breakdown, how do they get all those elephants city to city?), one part melodrama about circus performers and one part just straight up watching the circus. It's a very strange idea for a movie so in that sense I guess I can give some credit but it plays as the most expensive infomercial ever made. No idea how people voted for this over High Noon or that The Bad and The Beautiful wasn't even nominated for Best Picture despite 6 other nominations and 5 wins.
Mr. Mojo
Footballguy
It's definitely one of the weaker ones. But it's better than Around The World In 80 Days which had so much filler, it was ridiculous.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Around the World in 80 Days was beyond boring. I get the scope of it was amazing and there was no color TV or internet so most people had never had a chance to see the world in the way the movie presents but I agree it's a truly tough watch today when I have my cell phone at hand.
PlayaHata
Footballguy
Inspired by this thread, my wife and I watched About Time (2013) on Netflix last night. I don't think I had even ever heard of it before, but the movie was very good - plenty of laughs but also some very poignant moments too. And it certainly didn't hurt that it had a young Margot RobbiePlayaHata said:
in it either! Note that at the end of the movie, there was a message saying the movie is leaving Netflix on April 15, so if you want to watch it, you've got 2 weeks to see it on Netflix.
offdee
Footballguy
Fresh concept and the first couple episodes have some laughs, but it gets old pretty quickly.
El Floppo
Footballguy
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Ilov80s
Footballguy
So nice to be back to normal. My dad and I went to the local Silent Film Festival tonight. We caught The Goat short film with Buster Keaton which is so tight. Just a perfect little action comedy at 22 minutes. The main show Harold Lloyd's Safety Last. My dad had never seen it and he LOVED it. He was familiar with the image or idea of Harold Lloyd climbing the building and hanging by the clock but that doesn't do justice to just how funny the entire movie is or how perfect the building climb gag is.
whoknew
Footballguy
Just watched this and I disagree. I thought it was really entertaining. And kind of edge of your seat. With also, a little something to say. I liked it.
krista4
Footballguy
BroncoFreak_2K3
sucker for Orange
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Ilov80s
Footballguy
Yeah I guess I have seen some shorts before. There are just all probably 100 years old. I do want to check out the ones you recommended.
Eephus
Footballguy
Eephus
Footballguy
Movies I watched in March (too much sports, not enough film)
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Drive My Car (2021)
Batman (1989)
The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019)
Salt and Pepper (1968)
The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
Risky Business (1983)
Queen Christina (1933)
Wrath of Man (2021)
Amarcord (1973)
Windfall (2022)
Turning Red (2022)
Julia (1977)
Friday (1995)
Gorky Park (1983)
The King of Staten Island (2020)
All About Eve (1950)
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Drive My Car (2021)
Batman (1989)
The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019)
Salt and Pepper (1968)
The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
Risky Business (1983)
Queen Christina (1933)
Wrath of Man (2021)
Amarcord (1973)
Windfall (2022)
Turning Red (2022)
Julia (1977)
Friday (1995)
Gorky Park (1983)
The King of Staten Island (2020)
All About Eve (1950)
Eephus
Footballguy
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
Death in the Nile kinda boring. Thought I remember liking Orient Express
The Man With No Name
Footballguy
He is, but In 2018, Trintignant announced that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and would not be seeking treatment. In November 2021, it was reported that he was gradually losing his sight and was in declining health.
Watching one of his movies now - Il Sorpasso
El Floppo
Footballguy
We were just watch at a friend's place and the kids started falling asleep, so we left mid movie.
Hopefully we'll get to the bottom of who killed the Captain with the tripwire.
krista4
Footballguy
This year's aren't the ones I'd recommend the most, but definitely the three documentaries and two animated that I mentioned are very good.
I'd have to spend a lot of time finding all-time favorites, but The Lost Thing, We Can't Live Without Cosmos, Sing, Heaven Is A Traffic Jam on the 405 (actually every documentary nominee from that particular year was great), The White Helmets, A Love Song for Natasha (on Netflix), The Silent Child, Feeling Through, and the adorable little Piper are recent ones I remember and are available to watch easily. Many other of my favorites aren't out there streaming.
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Bracie Smathers
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Nice.Inspired by this thread, my wife and I watched About Time (2013) on Netflix last night. I don't think I had even ever heard of it before, but the movie was very good - plenty of laughs but also some very poignant moments too. And it certainly didn't hurt that it had a young Margot Robbie
Note that at the end of the movie, there was a message saying the movie is leaving Netflix on April 15, so if you want to watch it, you've got 2 weeks to see it on Netflix.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Il Sorpasso is a quite good. One of the first foreign movies I watched when I started to dive back into movies a few years ago. It and Bicycle Thieves definitely sold me on classic. foreign movies.
On a similarly sad note, Alain Delon who suffered a stroke recently has released a letter thanking his fans and announcing he is going to Switzerland for assisted suicide.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
I just really like this movie. The casting was just perfect as was their performances.Inspired by this thread, my wife and I watched About Time (2013) on Netflix last night. I don't think I had even ever heard of it before, but the movie was very good - plenty of laughs but also some very poignant moments too. And it certainly didn't hurt that it had a young Margot Robbie
Pretty jarring to read something like that. I shall watch Le Samourai again in his soon to be remembrance.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Yeah it is very sad. I guess his wife passed from cancer recently. She wanted to do assisted suicide but it is illegal in France so she suffered a slow painful death that was tough for Alain to have to watch. Then he had a pretty serious stroke and after seeing what his wife went through I can imagine he's doesn't want to suffer anymore. Le Samourai rules. Purple Noon is another good one to check out, it's the French Talented Mr Ripley.
El Floppo
Footballguy
We watched the Adam Project with the kids.
I mean, I get that he's likeable... but Reynolds needs to take some other roles that stretch his range. I'm pretty over the snarky, funny guy character, tbh. and it felt like every character had to be that character too. but I guess the movie was fine. just me, or did they seriously crib Good Will Hunting in one particular scene?
I mean, I get that he's likeable... but Reynolds needs to take some other roles that stretch his range. I'm pretty over the snarky, funny guy character, tbh. and it felt like every character had to be that character too. but I guess the movie was fine. just me, or did they seriously crib Good Will Hunting in one particular scene?
rustycolts
Footballguy
Watching In harms way now. Forgot how good that movie was..
Gr00vus
Footballguy
Watched Zulu Dawn and Zulu over the last couple of nights. The connection that got me there was the Richard Burton narration in Zulu (that's his only participation in the film, he doesn't appear in it). These were on the Tubi streaming service.
Can't say either one is all that great. In terms of production chronology Zulu came out roughly 15 years before Zulu dawn. In terms of historical chronology Zulu Dawn is about events that happened a day or so prior to the events in Zulu. They're about the opening of the Zulu/British wars in 1879. I won't get into the detailed history - wikipedia or whatever can give you however much detail you want there. The short version is, Zulu Dawn is about how the British picked a fight with the Zulu (your own research can inform you on whether that was justified or not), sent about 1800 troops into Zulu land and through various sorts of bungling got annihilated by about a 20,000 man Zulu Impi at Isandlwana. Zulu is about how a British outpost of a 150 troops held out against a 4000 or so Zulu Impi the next day (or so) at Rorke's Drift about 160 km away.
Of course the British perspective is what you mainly receive in both cases, though there are interesting interludes with the Zulus in both films.
In Zulu, Michael Caine is the most recognizable actor, initially channeling pure British effeteness, almost to distraction. He undergoes a bit of a change through the film as events progress becoming a much more human (IMO) person as a result. He's not quite the main character, as that is Lieutenant John Chard (played by Stanley Baker). There are couple of other semi-recognizable actors as well. For the most part I didn't think the acting was particularly awesome. As a 1964 film, the acting was somewhat of its time, but it doesn't age well. The directing wasn't so hot either, lots of very confused shots throughout, making it hard to tell where you are physically, which is odd given the limited scope of the area in which almost the entirety of the film takes place. In this one, the British are obviously portrayed as the good guys, though the Zulu are not demonized, they're just ciphers for the most part, shallow antagonists for the protagonists to kill/survive. Even so, I think the best parts of this film, cinematically, were those in which the Zulu would chant, dance, sing. Those moments connected. The rest was somewhat formulaic war movie stuff. I found the battle/action sequences pretty uncompelling, probably because the stunts, cinematography, props, etc. for such things have improved so much in the nearly 60 years since - it's hard to get invested in scenes of people getting "stabbed" by rubber spears by extras who didn't seem to have any combat training. They did a great job of putting enough people in the Zulu warrior bands to make it feel like they were there in overwhelming numbers.
Zulu Dawn was even weaker. Which is a shame because they put together a pretty awesome cast (I can't list them all, check out IMDB or something, you'll be surprised at how many quality British actors they pulled together). They gave them hardly anything to do. A great waste of talent there. Except for Burt Lancaster. I have no idea what he was doing there. They cast him as an Irish cavalry officer leading a cadre of local recruits. He just flat out forgot to maintain an Irish accent half the time, and I guess no one bothered to let him know. Really astounding. Even if he had managed to attend to that detail, his acting really paled in comparison to pretty much everyone around him. He had no business being in the film, I guess they wanted him for name recognition. The first two thirds of the film is mind numbingly boring set up work, yet they somehow fail to make you interested in any of the characters (caricatures in most cases). I mean, minutes on end of just marching. The remainder of the film is the battle, which is shot and edited so confusingly it's hard to tell where everyone is much of the time, and in such a way you'd have thought the Zulu would have mopped things up in like 5 minutes yet the movie just keeps going on and on. The Zulu again were probably the most interesting part of the film, they get a little more actual personification here (like more than one Zulu character had actual lines, unlike the earlier Zulu movie), and are not clearly depicted as the bad guys in this one. Again the production team did a great job of putting enough bodies in the field to make you get a feel for just how overwhelming the Zulu army was. One of the few effective parts of the film was experiencing the realization, on the part of the British troops, of what they were up against when the Zulu army finally appears, and that they were probably not going to live through it. Underlying it all is the incompetence/bad decision making of the British officer corps, their arrogance, and their sense of superiority over not only the Zulus, but the rank and filers in their own army.
Skip them both unless you really need to complete viewing of all Michael Caine's films (good luck with that) or want to try to play what other films/shows do I know that guy from with Zulu Dawn.
That said, I now intend to take on the Shaka Zulu mini series. I figure I may as well stay in the same theme for a bit. Wish me luck.
Can't say either one is all that great. In terms of production chronology Zulu came out roughly 15 years before Zulu dawn. In terms of historical chronology Zulu Dawn is about events that happened a day or so prior to the events in Zulu. They're about the opening of the Zulu/British wars in 1879. I won't get into the detailed history - wikipedia or whatever can give you however much detail you want there. The short version is, Zulu Dawn is about how the British picked a fight with the Zulu (your own research can inform you on whether that was justified or not), sent about 1800 troops into Zulu land and through various sorts of bungling got annihilated by about a 20,000 man Zulu Impi at Isandlwana. Zulu is about how a British outpost of a 150 troops held out against a 4000 or so Zulu Impi the next day (or so) at Rorke's Drift about 160 km away.
Of course the British perspective is what you mainly receive in both cases, though there are interesting interludes with the Zulus in both films.
In Zulu, Michael Caine is the most recognizable actor, initially channeling pure British effeteness, almost to distraction. He undergoes a bit of a change through the film as events progress becoming a much more human (IMO) person as a result. He's not quite the main character, as that is Lieutenant John Chard (played by Stanley Baker). There are couple of other semi-recognizable actors as well. For the most part I didn't think the acting was particularly awesome. As a 1964 film, the acting was somewhat of its time, but it doesn't age well. The directing wasn't so hot either, lots of very confused shots throughout, making it hard to tell where you are physically, which is odd given the limited scope of the area in which almost the entirety of the film takes place. In this one, the British are obviously portrayed as the good guys, though the Zulu are not demonized, they're just ciphers for the most part, shallow antagonists for the protagonists to kill/survive. Even so, I think the best parts of this film, cinematically, were those in which the Zulu would chant, dance, sing. Those moments connected. The rest was somewhat formulaic war movie stuff. I found the battle/action sequences pretty uncompelling, probably because the stunts, cinematography, props, etc. for such things have improved so much in the nearly 60 years since - it's hard to get invested in scenes of people getting "stabbed" by rubber spears by extras who didn't seem to have any combat training. They did a great job of putting enough people in the Zulu warrior bands to make it feel like they were there in overwhelming numbers.
Zulu Dawn was even weaker. Which is a shame because they put together a pretty awesome cast (I can't list them all, check out IMDB or something, you'll be surprised at how many quality British actors they pulled together). They gave them hardly anything to do. A great waste of talent there. Except for Burt Lancaster. I have no idea what he was doing there. They cast him as an Irish cavalry officer leading a cadre of local recruits. He just flat out forgot to maintain an Irish accent half the time, and I guess no one bothered to let him know. Really astounding. Even if he had managed to attend to that detail, his acting really paled in comparison to pretty much everyone around him. He had no business being in the film, I guess they wanted him for name recognition. The first two thirds of the film is mind numbingly boring set up work, yet they somehow fail to make you interested in any of the characters (caricatures in most cases). I mean, minutes on end of just marching. The remainder of the film is the battle, which is shot and edited so confusingly it's hard to tell where everyone is much of the time, and in such a way you'd have thought the Zulu would have mopped things up in like 5 minutes yet the movie just keeps going on and on. The Zulu again were probably the most interesting part of the film, they get a little more actual personification here (like more than one Zulu character had actual lines, unlike the earlier Zulu movie), and are not clearly depicted as the bad guys in this one. Again the production team did a great job of putting enough bodies in the field to make you get a feel for just how overwhelming the Zulu army was. One of the few effective parts of the film was experiencing the realization, on the part of the British troops, of what they were up against when the Zulu army finally appears, and that they were probably not going to live through it. Underlying it all is the incompetence/bad decision making of the British officer corps, their arrogance, and their sense of superiority over not only the Zulus, but the rank and filers in their own army.
Skip them both unless you really need to complete viewing of all Michael Caine's films (good luck with that) or want to try to play what other films/shows do I know that guy from with Zulu Dawn.
That said, I now intend to take on the Shaka Zulu mini series. I figure I may as well stay in the same theme for a bit. Wish me luck.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
Mr. Mojo
Footballguy
I watched an Australian film called The Dry this weekend. Eric Bana stars as a cop investigating a small town murder where he grew up and there was a separate murder when he was a teenager in the town.
There are a lot of flashbacks as he tries to solve the murder and is recalling the other murder. It takes it's time developing (don't expect tons of action) but I thought it was very well done.
If you watch it, make sure to watch the closing credits as there is a haunting version of Under The Milky Way sung by one of the main characters that was outstanding (yeah, I'm that guy that's always talking about the soundtrack or music in each film).
There are a lot of flashbacks as he tries to solve the murder and is recalling the other murder. It takes it's time developing (don't expect tons of action) but I thought it was very well done.
If you watch it, make sure to watch the closing credits as there is a haunting version of Under The Milky Way sung by one of the main characters that was outstanding (yeah, I'm that guy that's always talking about the soundtrack or music in each film).
Unfortunately, I agree. First one wasn't great, but better than Nile. Took far too long to get to the good stuff.
Don Quixote
Footballguy
Watched Nightmare Alley this weekend. Even as someone who likes neo-noir stuff, I thought it was pretty mediocre and could be skipped. I thought was a weak year for Best Picture nominees, but it seems a step below the others.
Also watched The Seven Samurai. I’ve seen it before, but it had been awhile. Still holds up as an outstanding, and don’t think I can say anything not already said about it. Bought the Criterion disc during one of the 50% off sales last year. Although blu-ray is 1080p and do wish they re-issue something remastered in 4K (or 4K UHD).
Also watched The Seven Samurai. I’ve seen it before, but it had been awhile. Still holds up as an outstanding, and don’t think I can say anything not already said about it. Bought the Criterion disc during one of the 50% off sales last year. Although blu-ray is 1080p and do wish they re-issue something remastered in 4K (or 4K UHD).
El Floppo
Footballguy
Ilov80s
Footballguy
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I haven't read much about Criterion's 4K plans. Are they going to go back and re-do most in 4K and re-release them, or is more of the focus on releasing the 4Ks with the new release Criterions?
El Floppo
Footballguy
Ilov80s
Footballguy
It seems a mix. They are releasing some new stuff in 4K and some of their previous catalogue is getting updated to 4K.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I guess I completely forgot about my Mulholland Drive purchase.
Just when I thought about the 4K titles, it seemed most were the new releases.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
Seven Samurai got a 4K restoration six years ago. Unfortunately it hasn't been released on disc, which is more than strange.
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krista4
Footballguy
I watched Nightmare Alley last week and was fairly bored throughout. So draggy and too long by at least 30 minutes. Came back into this thread to see what the reaction had been and was surprised that there were only a couple of posts about it, and they were both very positive.
Seven Samurai is top five for me.
STBootleg
Footballguy
I liked this movie as well, for some reason I always like Eric Bana. Regarding songs in credits, I'm always finding great songs I've never heard from "Shazaming" music that is run over the credits.
Don Quixote
Footballguy
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
"Does he want a pillow for his head?"
My favorite Coen movie. Just re-watched it with Mrs. Dogg and Dogg Jr. couple months ago.
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
Severance on Apple+ might be the best streaming show available.
